Salmo,

An article a day is 1000. If I just read one a day.

I am able to offer you a list of some of the books. We are online with KCLS and reserve the books and they send them to the local lib. They then call and tell us they have arrived.
Try it you will always have a stack of books.
I have also been given many by my assisatnt. She lived in SA from 12 to 18 and her dad is still a foreign contractor. She reccomends Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia -- by Jean Sasson as her favorite for the truth about life in the ME.

The Shaping of the Modern Middle East (Oxford University Press)
All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the
In the Land of Israel, by Amos Oz (Harcourt Brace)


Karen Armstrong’s Islam, A Short History (Modern Library)
The Koran Interpreted (Simon and Schuster
Taliban (Yale University Press)
Soldiers of God (Vintage)
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, by David Shipler (Penguin).
From Beirut to Jerusalem, by Thomas Friedman (Anchor).
A History of Israel From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, by Howard Sachar (Oxford University Press)
A History of the Arab Peoples, by Albert Hourani (Warner Books)
House of Windows, by Adina Hoffman (Broadway Books)
Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer. (John Wiley & Sons)
The Iron Wall, by Avi Shalim (W. W. Norton & Co.)
The Middle East, by Bernard Lewis (Touchstone Books)
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Charles Smith (Bedford/St. Martin's)
A Peace to End All Peace, by David Fromkin (Owl Books)
Power Politics, by Arundhati Roy (South End Press)
Righteous Victims, by Benny Morris (Knopf)
A Short History of the Jewish People from Legendary Times to Modern Statehood, by Raymond P. Scheindlin (Hungry Minds).
Stations of Desire: Love Elegies from Ibn Arabi and New Poems, by Michael Sells (Ibis Editions)
Unholy Wars, by John Cooley (Stylus Publishing, )
Wild Thorns, by Sahar Khalifeh (Interlink Publishing Group)
The Yellow Wind, by David Grossman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)